If you’re paying close attention, Mona Faye herself (!) has visited this virtual kitchen — grounding her daughter-in-law’s silliness with real facts and actual memories. Check out the comments.

Next to the People’s meat recipes, however, I feel like there’s a glimpse of a much younger Mona Faye (a.k.a. “Jean”) remembered in a tiny newspaper clipping.

It’s intriguing to imagine that this really rather complicated stuffing recipe was intended for the Junior chef. Either Mona Faye and her contemporaries were all mini-Marthas, or the newspapers didn’t know diddly about little kids.